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Cornwallis statue to stay in storage after Halifax council approves nearly all task force recommendations

July 21, 2020ByZane Woodford1 Comment

A statue of Halifax’s so-called founder will never again stand in a position of public commemoration after regional council voted to accept that and many more recommendations from the task force charged with deciding its fate. The Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis and the Recognition and Commemoration of Indigenous History tabled its […]

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哈利法克斯交通沟‘Willy Wonka tickets,’ council approves new plan for mobile ticketing app

July 21, 2020ByZane Woodford2 Comments

Halifax Transit will move ahead with a new plan to let riders use their phones as tickets, moving in a cashless direction that made some councillors uncomfortable. Regional council voted unanimously in favour of Halifax Transit’s new fare management strategy at its meeting on Tuesday, agreeing to start with a mobile ticketing application using “visual […]

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Halifax’s board of police commissioners is confused

July 20, 2020ByZane Woodford8的评论

The city’s police board is unable to get through an entire agenda — at least in public. The board got hung up again on Monday with a procedural debate about how it wants to define defunding the police. The Halifax board of police commissioners met Monday for its second virtual meeting of the month. Most […]

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Halifax developer updates design of massive Robie Street project with taller towers and more units

July 16, 2020ByZane Woodford

The developer behind one of the two big, controversial projects proposed for the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road has tweaked his design, opting for taller towers and more units. ZZapp Consulting submitted an updated design to the municipality on behalf of a numbered company owned by Peter Rouvalis in May, and it...

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Black man arrested for being in city park after dark says he was racially profiled by Halifax Regional Police officers

July 15, 2020ByZane Woodford5 Comments

A Halifax couple’s complaint of racial profiling by two police officers got bogged down by legal arguments at a review board hearing on Wednesday, eventually leading to an adjournment until the fall. Adam LeRue, who is Black, and Kerry Morris, LeRue’s partner who is white, stopped to make a phone call in the parking lot […]

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Halifax committee recommends in favour of eight-storey downtown heritage property addition

July 14, 2020ByZane Woodford

The city’s peninsula planning advisory committee is recommending in favour of a big developer’s plans to add a modern eight-storey building to the back of a South Street heritage property. Summer Wind Holdings, with the same owners as Southwest Properties, wants to build a total of 112 units in the space between South and Harvey...

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Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,News,Subscribers onlyTagged With:Centre Plan,Harvey Street,Jesse Morton,South Street,Southwest Properties,Stairs House,Summer Wind Holdings,William James Stairs

Not satire: Halifax police board to consider appointing committee to define defunding

July 9, 2020ByZane Woodford8的评论

At a meeting where it was expected to debate defunding the police, Halifax’s police board voted to debate appointing a committee to define defunding the police — at its next meeting. The board of police commissioners had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Thursday, but after starting more than half an hour later due […]

Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,NewsTagged With:Amy Siciliano,Carlos Beals,Carole McDougall,Ceasefire Halifax,Councillor Lindell Smith,councillor Tony Mancini,defund the police,DeRico Symonds,gun violence,Halifax Board of Police Commissioners,Marty Ward,Natalie Borden,Youth Advocate Program

Development agreement approved for preschool at Halifax councillor’s house

July 8, 2020ByZane Woodford

Coun. Shawn Cleary’s colleagues on the Halifax and West community council approved a development agreement for his house Wednesday night following a virtual public hearing. Michelle and Shawn Cleary have been running a preschool — Maple Tree Montessori, one of two campuses in Halifax — out of their home at the corner of Quinpool Road...

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Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,News,Subscribers onlyTagged With:Cameron Robertson,Councillor Lindell Smith,Councillor Russell Walker,councillor Shawn Cleary,daycare,Halifax and West Community Council,Maple Tree Montessori,Michelle Cleary

Council approves 12-storey Halifax development after virtual public hearing

July 8, 2020ByZane Woodford

No one signed up to speak for or against a 12-storey development proposed for Joseph Howe Drive during a public hearing Tuesday night, and council approved bylaw amendments to allow the project. The proposal from Alex and Besim Halef’s BANC Investments Ltd. would see a one-storey commercial building at 3514 Joseph Howe Dr. torn down...

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Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,News,Subscribers onlyTagged With:affordable housing,Alex Halef,Banc Investments,Besim Halef,Councillor Russell Walker,Dutch Village Road development,Joseph Howe Drive development,Keith Tufts,Paul Sampson

Halifax councillors push back on ‘loosey-goosey’ social procurement policy, but living wage further delayed

July 7, 2020ByZane Woodford3 Comments

Councillors expressed their disappointment with a mealy-mouthed social procurement policy presented on Tuesday, but it will be months before they can add any teeth to requirements for a living wage or diversity in the city’s contracting. The policy — which passed on Tuesday as part of a rewritten procurement policy with only Coun. Matt Whitman voting […]

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